Versatile Mage: Get the Desert Emperor clone at the start

Chapter 44 The Siren's Song

The water in the center of the vortex became strangely clear, like a piece of clear blue crystal.

Qin Xiaonan narrowed his eyes and vaguely saw a slender figure swimming slowly in the depths of the whirlpool. The figure was slender and elegant, surrounded by a brilliant blue light. But every time he tried to make out a closer look, the current distorted his vision, as if the entire whirlpool was deliberately blocking outside observation.

"Qingning, can you see clearly?" Qin Xiaonan asked in a low voice.

The little fox on his shoulder pricked up its ears, and its amber pupils suddenly shrank into a thin line - this is the state of the fennec fox clan activating "clairvoyance".

Her gaze penetrated the surging waves and finally captured the true appearance of the figure.

"Sir," Qingning said, "it looks like a mermaid!"

"Woo," Qing Ning suddenly frowned and said to Qin Xiaonan, "Sir, she seems to be singing, but her singing is too bad."

As a monarch-level demon, Qingning can capture ultrasonic waves beyond the range of human hearing.

“She’s singing, you say?”

The little fox shook its ears, suddenly jumped off Qin Xiaonan's shoulder, turned into a human form and stood on the edge of the cliff.

She took a deep breath, and her nine fox tails spread out behind her like a peacock's tail. A strange trembling sound came from her throat - it was not human language, but a spiritual resonance between high-level demons.

【It’s so noisy! 】

【Shut up! 】

Qingning's voice was not loud, but it penetrated the raging waves like a clear spring.

Shockingly, as her words fell, the massive whirlpool on the sea surface, hundreds of meters in diameter, suddenly froze, then slowly ceased its rotation. The upright wall of water collapsed with a bang, and the splashing waves shimmered like broken silver in the moonlight.

In an instant, the sea returned to an eerie calm, as if everything that had just happened was an illusion. Only the dead fish floating on the surface proved that the terrifying sonic attack had actually occurred.

Qin Xiaonan looked at Qingning sharply: "What did you do?"

Qing Ning put away her fox tail, tilted her head and showed a sly smile: "I told her that her singing was too bad and too loud, and asked her to shut up."

“Who knew she was so obedient?”

The Sand Scorpion emerged from the shadows and pointed at the sea surface with its claws. Although the whirlpool disappeared, the breath did not disappear, so we still had to be careful.

The sea was calm for less than two minutes before another shrill scream was heard.

The sea surface less than ten meters away from the cliff suddenly collapsed, and a whirlpool even larger than the previous one appeared out of thin air. The splashing waves directly wet the corner of Qin Xiaonan's clothes.

"Young Master, be careful!"

Qingning quickly stood in front of Qin Xiaonan, and the golden lines on the nine fox tails lit up at the same time. The rocks under his feet instantly turned into sand, forming a yellow sand barrier.

The surging sea water hit the sand wall, making a "hissing" sound, and was completely blocked outside.

Qin Xiaonan's pupils suddenly constricted as he peered through the churning water. The looming figure at the center of the vortex finally revealed its true form—it was indeed a mermaid, almost eerie in beauty, like a sea spirit from ancient legends.

She floated in the eye of the swirling storm, her upper body a flawless, porcelain-like figure, her skin shimmering like mother-of-pearl in the murky waters. Her long, seaweed-blue hair flowed with the current, tiny, luminescent jellyfish entwined among its strands, like stars dotting the night sky. With a gentle movement of her head, the ends of her hair cast a shower of tiny, fluorescent rays, creating dreamy bands of light within the swirling waters.

When Qin Xiaonan's gaze shifted to her face, it was a face that combined the innocence of a young girl with the strange allure of a demon. Beneath a full forehead lay a pair of eerie purple eyes, dotted with tiny pearly scales at the corners. Beneath a straight nose lay cherry-like lips, now slightly parted, revealing two rows of fine, fangs.

Her lower body, from her slender waist down, was covered with crystal-clear scales, each as thin as a cicada's wing, yet reflecting a rainbow-like luster.

These scales open and close with the current, revealing the faint blue texture of the muscles beneath. A slender tail ends in a caudal fin that splays like a yarn or mist, allowing it to stabilize itself in a whirlpool with a gentle flick.

When she turned her neck, Qin Xiaonan noticed that there were three pairs of gill slits behind her ears, which were opening and closing regularly.

The most eye-catching thing is that there is a glowing water snake wrapped around her right arm, and the snake's eyes are exactly the same as the mermaid's, both with purple pupils.

The mermaid completely ignored Qin Xiaonan's existence, staring straight at Qingning with her purple eyes.

Her small lips opened and closed gently, as if she was saying something, but Qin Xiaonan couldn't hear it.

However, Qingning should be able to hear it, and then he opened his mouth and started chatting with the other party.

A fish and a fox began to talk to each other from a distance.

Qin Xiaonan: “.”

As they were chatting, they didn't know what they were talking about, but they suddenly attacked at the same time and started fighting.

The mermaid's previously eerie purple eyes instantly shrank into two dangerous vertical lines, and her arms suddenly spread out to the sides. Instantly, the entire sea seemed to be stirred by an invisible giant hand, and dozens of violent waterspouts over three meters in diameter burst out of the sea.

Qingning slammed his small claws heavily on the beach, and the sand within a radius of a hundred meters surged up like a living thing, instantly forming three stepped yellow sand barriers.

"boom--!!!"

The first waterspout collided with the outermost wall of sand with a bang. The massive shockwave blew away all the seawater within a hundred meters, revealing the wet seabed below.

Immediately afterwards, the second and third waterspouts followed one after another. The yellow sand barrier continued to collapse under the continuous impact, and then quickly reorganized under the stimulation of Qingning's demonic power.

In the mist, the mermaid's slender fingertips glowed with a faint blue light.

With a graceful snap of her fingers, the water droplets flying in the air suddenly solidified, transforming into thousands of ice crystal arrows in an instant. The tip of each arrow glowed with a strange purple light—evidently tempered with some deep-sea poison.

"Hmph!" Qingning's small nose wrinkled, and his claws quickly crossed over his chest. The scattered sand grains suddenly trembled, and in the blink of an eye, they condensed into an equal number of sand needles. Even more astonishing, a cluster of fox fire danced at the tip of each sand needle, drawing a golden trail in the night.

“Ding-dong-dong—”

The ice crystals and sand needles collided in mid-air, making a crisp sound like a rainstorm.

Blue and yellow magical sparks continuously splashed, illuminating the entire beach like daylight. Some of the ice arrows that escaped the net struck the reefs, corroding the rocks into honeycomb-like holes; and scattered sand needles touched the sea surface, causing the water to boil and vaporize.

Amid the surging waves and flying sand, no one can do anything to anyone else.

The mermaid was suspended in the center of the vortex, and Qingning stood on the cliff. The two faced each other in the air, both of them had slightly disordered breathing, but neither of them was willing to give in.

It is difficult to tell which one is better in this battle between water and sand!
(End of this chapter)